Gawker has a massive profile of porn gossipmonger/the guy who helped take down Porn Wikileaks, Mike South.

The New York PR guy who coined the term “half-hooker” wrote about the “hybrid-hooker.” In the olden times I believe the term “sugar baby” was the descriptor. I feel like I went back in time reading this.

“‘Instead of grandstanding about abolishing all prostitution, why don’t they immediately end the prostitution of minors and human trafficking? They’ve already got all the laws to stop that, yet it still exists,’ said a male sex worker in his 20s, who works nights in the forest of Fontainebleau outside Paris.” The Guardian has a thoughtful article about new efforts in France to criminalize prostitution.